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Joint Task Force 1 was the atomic bomb test force during the post–World War II Operation Crossroads. [ 3 ] In naval terms, the multinational ( Australia , United States , United Kingdom , Canada , and New Zealand ) Combined Communications Electronics Board mandates through Allied Communications Publication 113 (ACP 113) the present system ...
The Territorial Force was a part-time volunteer component of the British Army, created in 1908 to augment British land forces without resorting to conscription.The new organisation consolidated the 19th-century Volunteer Force and yeomanry into a unified auxiliary, commanded by the War Office and administered by local county territorial associations.
The Army Service Forces was one of the three autonomous components of the United States Army during World War II, the others being the Army Air Forces and Army Ground Forces, created on 9 March 1942. By dividing the Army into three large commands, the Chief of Staff , General George C. Marshall , drastically reduced the number of officers and ...
The Black Devil Brigade: The True Story of the First Special Service Force. Pacifica Military History. ISBN 0-935553-50-9. Stanton, Shelby, World War II Order of Battle: An Encyclopedic Reference to U.S. Army Ground Forces from Battalion through Division, 1939-1946 (Revised Edition, 2006), Stackpole Books ISBN 0-8117-0157-3; Werner, Brett (2006).
This is a list of formations of the United States Army during the World War II.Many of these formations still exist today, though many by different designations. Included are formations that were placed on rolls, but never organized, as well as "phantom" formations used in the Allied Operation Quicksilver deception of 1944—these are marked accordingly.
The Soviet Union as well as its forerunners and successors have mostly used "regiment" instead of brigade, and this was common in much of Europe until after World War II. A brigade's commander is commonly a major general, [note 1] brigadier general, brigadier or colonel. In some armies, the commander is rated as a general officer.
The Fast Carrier Task Force (TF 38 when assigned to Third Fleet, TF 58 when assigned to Fifth Fleet) was a group of ships in World War II.It was the main striking force of the United States Navy in the Pacific War from January 1944 through the end of the war in September 1945.
In August 2003 the battalion deployed with 700 soldiers as a task force to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom IV, for a nine-month rotation. Task Force 2–87 was part of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, working as the northern combat task force.